>...(snip)...
>In Britain women have consistently polled higher support for the
>Conservative Party than men (a trend that has only weakened now that the
>Labour party has become very conservative itself).
>....
In Norway women are on the average more anti-racist, more union-friendly, more green, more against EU membership. Without the women vote, Norway of today would have had a more right-wing government (today it is sort of slightly right of the centre), and we would have been a member of the EU.
The main reason for this political state of affairs, I think, is the large share of women in public sector jobs like schools, hospitals, kindergartens, care for the elderly, municipalities. Boy, am I glad we have them!
Trond Andresen